I need a good free blog publisher for my youth group.

[newcrasher]

I have been trying to set up a blog for the youth at our church through blogspot, Google’s blogger. It is frustrating me to no end!

Can anyone suggest a good blog publisher where people can post only after initial approval by a moderator and where, once you have registered, otheres can comment on the posts? I guess almost like a mini-message board.

Any help?

;j

(no obviously Christian smilies)

[Scott_Plaid]

How about deadjournal?

@The FAQ

Membership
A community’s membership may be open, moderated, or closed. In an open community, any user can go to the Community Info page (userinfo.bml) and join by clicking a link near the top of the page. In a moderated community, maintainers may invite users to join the community, or a prospective member may request memebership, which then must be approved by the community maintainer. In a closed community, no user can request membership to a community. Maintainers must invite any prospective members.

Maintainers can invite members to their community by adding their names to the members section of the community management page, located at Community Management. Users would then need to accept (or reject) their pending invitations at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml.

[psycat90]

Livejournal?

[Scott_Plaid]

What about compromising, and find a link for a journal community expressly designed for the living dead? It would combine the best of Livejournal, and the best of Deadjournal. In other words, a disaster.

P.S. I believe what I posted about Deadjournal is true of livejournal as well, since they use the same code and design.

[psycat90]

Deadjournal does use the same (open source) code as livejournal as do a few other sites that I’m aware of (gotdiary, aboutmylife, greatestjournal.)
I expect any one of those would do just as well, I’ve just been incredibly pleased with livejournal.